The Design Files 2012 Calendar! (+ giveaway!)

Kat Chadwick‘s incredible illustration of the cute ephemera in her Collingwood studio! CUTE so cute.

Good MORNING and please bear with me whilst we use up another TDF post to plug another TDF project! :)

After being asked by quite a few lovely readers if we’re doing another one this year, I thought it was about time we announce The Design Files BRAND NEW 2012 Calendar! We dearly hope you will like / love / buy it!

Moving on from last year’s ‘Neighbourhoods’ theme, this year we asked each illustrator to give us a little window into their home and studio environments – sharing with us their collective creative clutter! Inside you’ll score a peek at Kat Macleods’s colour-filled wardrobe, Beci Orpin’s picture-perfect pinboard, Dawn Tan’s well stocked craft kit, Marcela Restrepo’s gourmet kitchen pantry and much more!

We hope you love this calendar as much as we have loved making it! This year we selected a beautiful and slightly more muted colour palette with the help of genius colour whizz Kat Macleod – thankyou Kat! I also inherited some snazzy new ‘handwriting’ care of the very talented Liz Wilson at Ortolan, who also did the new layout and all important font selection for this year’s calendar – thankyou Liz! I drove Jeremy Wortsman and Monica Laskowski at Lamington Drive a bit crazy with back and forth emails and annoying questions about paper stock – Thankyou Jeremy and Monica! And of course massive thanks to our incredible group of illustrators who made such beautiful work for this very special project.

PLEASE COME ALONG next Thursday Nov 24th for the Calendar launch event at Lamington Drive! The show coincides with the opening night of Marc Martin‘s gorgeous new exhibition Silent Observer too, which makes it doubly awesome and doubly worth attending :)

The Design Files 2012 calendar is $30 including GST! If you are interstate or overseas, do consider pre-ordering The Design Files 2012 Calendar over here! Your order will be shipped next Wed Nov 23rd, just before the launch event.

BUT if you’re in Melbourne, you can save on shipping by snapping up a calendar in person at 2012 Calendar launch next week AND/OR at The Design Files Open House event Dec 1st – 4th! YES definitely come along please! There are also limited edition prints available of each calendar illustration, a few of which will grace the wall of TDF Open House! OMG. There is just way too much going on right now :)

AND just because we love a giveaway, we would love to offer 5 of these brand new 2012 Calendars for 5 lovely readers! Simply leave your comment on this post before 10.00pm tonight to be in the running! 5 winners will be drawn at random and contacted by email tomorrow!

*UPDATE – Thanks so much for all your amazing comments! 5 winners have now been drawn, the lucky winners are Alice (comment #133), G (comment #168), Amy (comment #111), Sandra (comment #47) and Gemma (comment #57). Thank you to everyone who left a comment and hope to see you all at the Calendar launch on Thursday 24th of November at Lamington Drive!

The first day of the month has been my favourite time this past year since that’s the day I turn my favourite calender over to expose a lovely new scene which lives in my kitchen until the first of the month comes again!

Asha townsend
3 years ago

Love love love

Jo
3 years ago

Gorgeous! I would love to have that hanging on my wall!

Cheryl
3 years ago

Would love to win this, looks fantastic.

Helen
3 years ago

oooh, I need to be organised for 2012, this calendar would be fab!!

Rachel
3 years ago

what a cool calendar! always so hard to find a nice designer one… would look fab in our office!

the calendar is gorgeous ! :) i hope to have it because i know I wont be able to get it or see it elsewhere on my country HOHO~! :)

amy
3 years ago

Next year I’m getting married, running a massive event, going for a longish jaunt overseas, welcoming a dear friend’s first baby as well as working, keeping fit, making time for creativity and not losing my mind. Clearly, a beautiful calendar is needed to ease the pain of running my life like a military operation!

LOVE this, I just hired a designer and I am trying to make our snug office a creative melting of ideas while making the space as aesthetically pleasing as possible. This calender would be a perfect addition to the place!

I was so disappointed I missed out on grabbing one of these calendars last year, I was and still am forever envious of those lucky enough to have done so! Fingers crossed and thanks for producing another fabulous calendar!

Annalisa
3 years ago

Okay, so I’ll be buying one or two or more for sure, but it would be so lovely to win one too! Thanks DF team. x

My favourite colours, fabulous illustrations, so much eye candy, how exciting to see the 2012 Design Files Calendar! Would be so inspiring to have one of these hanging on my wall all through the year! xxx

I would love to peruse the creative clutter each month from each featured designer – how innovative and inspirational – a great way to start each day in 2012! Thanks Lucy and Lamington drive – I hope to pick up a few calenders as presents for my nearest and dearest over the coming weeks!

Jules
3 years ago

Sick illustrations, great work guys!

michelle
3 years ago

Already a year since the last one! Congratulations on another beautiful collaboration. Super impressive.

Ch. Oi. Ce. I always leave the purchase of a calander until the last possible moment, when you only have cats in baskets or puppies to choose from… Please make me seem organised this year?

Claire
3 years ago

I would LOVE to win one of these 2012 Calendars! Super cute illustrations and design to help get me organised for next year! xx C

rebekah cichero
3 years ago

a moment in time put up on a wall, some art with heart to make me feel tall, a picture to look at as the days fly fast, some art to inspire as life wizzes fast. thankyou artist, illustrator and clever designer, a calendar like this couldn’t be finer! x

rebekah cichero
3 years ago

a moment in time put up on a wall, some art with heart to make me feel tall, a picture to look at as the days fly fast, some art to inspire as life wizzes past. thankyou artist; illustrator; designer; a calendar like this couldn’t be finer! x

Love the calendar. Going to blog about it later this week. Really sweet.

Penthea
3 years ago

It looks lovely Lucy..! Yes please.

Groomstreet
3 years ago

Was so excited to see this – I loved last year’s!!!!! Me me me

lizzz
3 years ago

This will keep me on track……creative, stylish, fresh & *fabulous*!

Emma
3 years ago

Looks amazing! I have absolutely loved turning each page of the 2011 TDF Neighbourhood Calendar on the first day of each month…and can’t believe there is only one neighborhood illustration left for the year! Yes please…

HOLY SMOKES BATMAN!
I just went bananas when I saw this post!
I totally just fell in love.
They are so beautifully crafted – the illustrations are divine! x

mimi la sardine
3 years ago

That would be sooo nice!

Millie Burke
3 years ago

PICK ME! PICK ME! x

robyn
3 years ago

Thanks Design Files for another gem. I was wondering when the next calendar would be out. I can’t wait to get my hands on one again. Love the Illustrations and love that it promotes great illustrators work.